Artist Bio
Pierre Bataillard lives and works near Bonnyville Alberta. With a professional background in architecture, Pierre has worked for many years in watercolour and pastels, focussing on studio still life and his surrounding landscape. He has evolved a unique personal style based on observation and delineation of what early modern writers called "significant form". He finds similarities of form in his still life subjects and the oil field structures of drums, pipes and reservoir oil tanks, rendering both in a similiar style. Using an intuitive, loose and expressive drawing method which captures the weights, masses, shapes and outlines of the subject matter, Pierre takes an
abstracting, simplifying approach (rather than a realistic approach based on an accumulation of details); his details are the small expressive marks the hand makes. Even so, the subjects retain their believability. Even more, they are full of verve and joi le vivre through the creative use of colour and drawing techniques. His is an authentic and unique interpretation of the Alberta landscape and tablescape.
Note: the first nine images are watercolour, charcoal and cut-paper collage on smaller sheets of paper, while the remaining images are larger pastel chalk or watercolour drawings on paper.
ARTIST'S WORDS
"Choosing simple shape still life objects to work from allows me greater freedom of interpretation without loosing the still life feel.
The challenge with oil tanks is to mesh an oversize still life with the landscape it sits in. To this end, I treat the industrial elements as collage and the landscape as paintings. If it weren't for the fact that I am surrounded by these behemoths, I would never have thought of painting them. But I did and I was pleasantly surprised with the results. This short oil patch series is likely my last effort at representing it. And if the recent Paris agreement has any teeth, my next industrial series could well be " Alberta Wind Farms".
TEAPOTS AND OIL TANKS exhibition April 2- 26, 2016
Opens Sat. April 2, 2016 12-5 pm.
Come and meet the artist
Note: (Nov 2021) Our new website layout will have titles and prices posted soon. Please inquire if interested.
abstracting, simplifying approach (rather than a realistic approach based on an accumulation of details); his details are the small expressive marks the hand makes. Even so, the subjects retain their believability. Even more, they are full of verve and joi le vivre through the creative use of colour and drawing techniques. His is an authentic and unique interpretation of the Alberta landscape and tablescape.
Note: the first nine images are watercolour, charcoal and cut-paper collage on smaller sheets of paper, while the remaining images are larger pastel chalk or watercolour drawings on paper.
ARTIST'S WORDS
"Choosing simple shape still life objects to work from allows me greater freedom of interpretation without loosing the still life feel.
The challenge with oil tanks is to mesh an oversize still life with the landscape it sits in. To this end, I treat the industrial elements as collage and the landscape as paintings. If it weren't for the fact that I am surrounded by these behemoths, I would never have thought of painting them. But I did and I was pleasantly surprised with the results. This short oil patch series is likely my last effort at representing it. And if the recent Paris agreement has any teeth, my next industrial series could well be " Alberta Wind Farms".
TEAPOTS AND OIL TANKS exhibition April 2- 26, 2016
Opens Sat. April 2, 2016 12-5 pm.
Come and meet the artist
Note: (Nov 2021) Our new website layout will have titles and prices posted soon. Please inquire if interested.
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